These concourse tunnels stretch for over 5 miles under the streets of Philadelphia. Even in a city of 1.4 million people these tunnels are abandoned most of the day.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=216242\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

This is off-topic but I am intrigued by your comment about the tunnels being empty during the day. That's a depressing thought. I don't know Philadelphia, is that because they don't lead to anywhere useful anymore or is it because people are afraid to use them? What a waste of infrastructure, either way.

I grew up in Montreal and lived for 25 in Toronto and both those cities have a fantastic underground system of subways, public areas, malls, etc. With our Canadian winters, it is maybe not surprising that people use these places a lot, but why don't they in Philly?

Nice work. How often are you stabbed down there?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=216442\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

LOL

There would have to be people down there for that to happen. During rush hour it can get busy but that might be too strong of a word for it. People are scared to death of this place and in the early 90's they had a right to be but now it's abandoned for most of the day, I can go a couple of hours before seeing another human being. During the winter it becomes a shelter for a couple hundred homeless and the stench is overbearing. The largest section of this tunnel is a football field wide and a half a mile long, it's an amazing waste of space and makes you feel like you survived a nuclear holocaust. The tunnels branch off in several directions and several elevations, There are signs and entrances to buildings that have changed names or no longer exist, there are long stretches of tunnels that have been bricked up and long forgotten. at one point you walk behind a waterfall located at city hall, there are several fully stocked fallout shelters that haven't seen the light of day in decades. Besides taking photos of it I use it on rainy days to get to the other side of downtown without getting wet.

There would have to be people down there for that to happen. During rush hour it can get busy but that might be too strong of a word for it. People are scared to death of this place and in the early 90's they had a right to be but now it's abandoned for most of the day, I can go a couple of hours before seeing another human being. During the winter it becomes a shelter for a couple hundred homeless and the stench is overbearing. The largest section of this tunnel is a football field wide and a half a mile long, it's an amazing waste of space and makes you feel like you survived a nuclear holocaust. The tunnels branch off in several directions and several elevations, There are signs and entrances to buildings that have changed names or no longer exist, there are long stretches of tunnels that have been bricked up and long forgotten. at one point you walk behind a waterfall located at city hall, there are several fully stocked fallout shelters that haven't seen the light of day in decades. Besides taking photos of it I use it on rainy days to get to the other side of downtown without getting wet.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=216506\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Very cool. My only visits to philly have been to the airport and the penn museum.

So far as I know we had no fallout shelters deeper than the basement of an elementary school. In the case of nuclear war we would be expected to die as there would be no reason to live a capitalist existence with all the stores leveled.